Flash floods swept over two waterfalls Saturday on a southern Thai mountain popular with picknickers and swimmers, killing at least 21 people as the country celebrated its traditional New Year, officials said. Recovery crews estimated dozens were missing at the jungled Sairung and Praisawan waterfalls, which were crowded this weekend with people celebrating the holiday. About 200 people were thought to have been at the cascades during the flood. Some 120 people swept into the water at Sairung or stranded on rocks were rescued, said Soralak Thiepwu, deputy chief of the provincial disaster prevention center. The falls, about three miles apart, are in a forested area in the Yantakao district of Trang province, 420 miles south of Bangkok. Swimmers and picnickers gather alongside streams at the base of the cascades. ... http://abcnews.go.com

A horse was euthanized and its rider charged with being drunk on horseback after a Kentucky state trooper struck the horse with his cruiser, state police said. Trooper James Richard was driving in a rainstorm about five miles east of Columbia in south-central Kentucky when he hit the horse and rider late Friday on an unlighted, rural highway, state police said. The horse was critically injured and euthanized at the scene, state police said. Jonathan Bryant was charged with DUI-non-motorized vehicle after being treated and released for minor injuries. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3041554

Thieves have stolen jewelry worth 1 million Swiss francs (about U.S. $825,000) from the world's biggest and most luxurious watch and jewelry fair in Basel, authorities said Saturday."It happened on Tuesday before the fair started," said Peter Gill, spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in the canton, or state, of Basel.The jewelry was grabbed when it was being brought to a stall in the exhibition hall for the Baselworld fair, he told The Associated Press."Nobody was hurt," he added.He declined to comment further to avoid compromising the ongoing inquiry.The theft is likely to be the largest in the fair's recent history, Baselworld spokesman Bernhard Keller told the AP.But he said that security at the fair was adequate....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266081,00.html

China has urged the US to show patience as North Korea appeared set to miss a key deadline for closing its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Beijing had urged US officials to wait "a couple more days", US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said. Under a landmark deal signed on 13 February, North Korea agreed to shut down and seal its reactor within 60 days in return for economic aid. But a banking row has stalled progress towards meeting the 14 April date. "We have reached our 60-day deadline and needless to say, this presents a concern that the deadline has not been met," Mr Hill said in Beijing, where he has been holding talks. But officials in Beijing had asked the US to be flexible, he said. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6555677.stm

At least 36 people have been killed and more than 160 hurt in a suicide car bomb attack in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, officials say. The attacker detonated explosives at a crowded bus station in the city close to a shrine holy to Shia Muslims, at around 0915 local time (0515 GMT). Many of the casualties were said to be women or children. Meanwhile in Baghdad at least 10 people died in a truck bomb attack on a key bridge in the south of the city. The driver of the pick-up detonated his bomb near a checkpoint on the Jadariya bridge, across the River Tigris. The bridge appears to have been left intact. This follows a truck bomb which partially destroyed the Sarafiya bridge in northern Baghdad on Thursday, killing eight people. The attacks come as a US-led security operation enters its third month. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6554887.stm